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title: 'Mid Level ASIC Design Engineer at Tensordyne'
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# Mid Level ASIC Design Engineer at Tensordyne

- **Company:** Tensordyne
- **Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-08-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/tensordyne/jobs/8686783002

## Job description

## About Tensordyne

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our world. It can perform cognitive functions that previously only humans could do, such as perceiving interactions across different environments with the ability to quickly learn and then solve complex problems. Tensordyne is a system solution company that specializes in the design of industry-leading high-performance, low-power AI inferencing. Our mission is to enable multimodal Generative AI inference acceleration at scale by providing safe, sustainable, high-performance AI-driven solutions for many markets. We are at the leading edge of advancing the latest research and product improvements for Al inference solutions that will make Al even more advantageous for compelling new applications. Tensordyne is a well funded, fast-paced startup company with headquarters in both Sunnyvale, CA, and Munich, Germany. We also have many talented team members working remotely. We prioritize our employees' well-being and their families, aiming for a healthier, happier life inside and outside work. We value their contributions and offer tailored benefits for health and financial security, catering to different life stages. Our comprehensive benefits and competitive compensation, including flexible spending and Bonusly awards, reflect our commitment to a supportive and inspiring work environment.

About the role:

As a member of Tensordyne’s ASIC team, you will be responsible for the microarchitecture and design implementation of high-performance AI ASICs. These ASICs closely couple novel computational accelerator units, compute, interconnects, networking and 3rd-party IP blocks as needed to redefine the next generation of tokenomics for inference.

Your responsibilities will be wide-ranging and span at minimum the following:

Responsibilities:

- Work with architecture on reconciling changes with respect to micro-architecture
- Define microarchitecture and document
- Select and integrate 3rd-party IP blocks
- Collaborate with design verification engineers
- Run, analyse frontend synthesis and address all issues
- Collaborate with backend teams on place-and-route guidance and timing closure
- Ability to leverage GenAI usage across all workflows, while retaining ownership and quality of all generated collateral

Required Qualifications:

- 3+ years of ASIC design experience with a demonstrable track record of RTL logic design in multi-million gate ASICs with Verilog or System Verilog.
- Experience in IP integration, specifically CPU IP into SoC.
- Knowledge of ARM/RISC-V/MIPS Architectures, Memory hierarchy, Cache coherency, Virtual memory, Multicore CPU operation
- Familiarity with AMBA/APB/AXI Protocol
- Familiarity with processor peripheral interfaces like SPI, eMMC, *MII, GPIO, I2C ....
- Hands-on experience in all aspects of the ASIC development process with proficiency in front-end tools and methodologies.
- Familiarity with low power design. UPF flow for defining power intent of chips with multiple power domains
- Previous experience with timing closure at high frequencies is a plus.
- Interest to explore AI architectures for convolution, transformer and other kinds of workloads
- Self-starter and highly-motivated to work in a dynamic start-up environment.
- B.S. (M.S. preferred) degree in Electrical or Computer engineering.

Tensordyne's culture was built on the following values that are equally important to us as business:

- Put people first. We only succeed when our people succeed.
- Ethics and integrity always; Being open, honest, and respectful of everyone.
- Think Big. Be ambitious and have audacious goals.
- Aim for excellence. Quality and excellence count in everything we do.
- Own it and get it done. Results matter!
- Make Each Person Better together than they would be as an individual.
- Embrace each others’ differences.
- Embrace that there will be differences.

Tensordyne is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that a diverse team is better at tackling complex problems and coming up with innovative solutions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.

## About Tensordyne

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tensordyne builds full-stack AI inference systems that use proprietary logarithmic math and custom 3nm silicon to dramatically reduce power, cost, and rack space for running large-scale generative AI models.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C funded)
- **Headquarters**: Sunnyvale, California, United States (co-headquarters also in Munich, Germany)
- **Founded**: 2018 (based on first funding round in 2018)
- **Founders**: Gilles Backhus (Co‑Founder, VP of AI & Product), RK Anand (Co‑founder & Chief Product Officer)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI hardware and infrastructure (computer hardware manufacturing, deep learning silicon, systems engineering)
- **Target customers**: Hyperscalers, Neo-Cloud data centers, and large enterprises running multimodal generative AI workloads
- **Mission**: “Innovating at the zeroth layer – rewrite the numbers so intelligence flows with a fraction of today’s energy and cost.”

## Products & Services
- **[Tensordyne Napier Inference System](https://www.tensordyne.ai/inference-system)**: An integrated rack‑scale AI inference platform combining custom logarithmic processors (3nm), HBM/SRAM memory, and a sub‑microsecond interconnect. Delivered as a TDN72 pod (72 chips) that scales into a full rack, supporting standard token serving and disaggregated inference. Fully air‑cooled and designed to fit into existing data center infrastructure.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metrics**: 
  - Annual Revenue: $4.5M (estimated, per LinkedIn)
  - Total Funding: $211.05M across 5 rounds
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: GreatPoint Ventures (led Series A), Celesta Capital (led Series B), Premji Invest (led Series C), HSBC Innovation Banking (debt financing)
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired Recogni GmbH; 89 employees (growing ~1% monthly); 12 active job postings (up 20% month-over-month, 140% quarter-over-quarter); talent drawn from top AI teams (Argo AI, Intel, NVIDIA, BMW, Bosch AI Center)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Logarithmic compute**: Replaces energy‑intensive multiplications with additions, cutting power consumption at the root.
- **Custom 3nm silicon** with built‑in interconnect logic, eliminating traditional bottlenecks.
- **Sub‑microsecond interconnect** (under 1,000 ns latency, 1 TB/s any‑to‑any bandwidth) enabling near‑linear scaling across 72 chips.
- **9× better space efficiency, 2× faster speed, and 10× cost savings** versus the Nvidia+Groq standard (company claim).
- **Fully air‑cooled** – no complex liquid cooling required, lowering deployment friction.

## Strategic Focus
Tensordyne is focused on making GenAI inference “profitable at speed and scale” by delivering a drop‑in system that dramatically reduces the total cost of ownership for hyperscale and cloud data centers. Current priorities include scaling production of the Napier system, expanding go‑to‑market with enterprise sales, and deepening the logarithmic quantization ecosystem to support any framework or model.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Build cool tech” – a band of engineers, mathematicians, and chip designers who thrive on solving hard, ambiguity‑rich problems. Values include one team, mission focus, innovate with passion, think like an owner, and act with integrity.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Remote‑friendly; output over location. In‑person gatherings happen when “magic needs to happen.”
- **Engineering emphasis**: Deep technical challenges across math, silicon, systems, and software – with a fast‑moving, well‑funded environment. Team spans North America and Europe (offices in Sunnyvale, San Jose, Munich).
- **Hiring process**: Mutual discovery – a few calls, possibly a challenge, then fast decisions.

## Sources
1. [tensordyne.ai – About](https://www.tensordyne.ai/about)
2. [tensordyne.ai – Careers](https://www.tensordyne.ai/careers)
3. [tensordyne.ai – Inference System](https://www.tensordyne.ai/inference-system)
4. [linkedin.com – Tensordyne Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tensordyne)

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